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Parents: the principal and first educators

Everyone can see, although at times only intuitively, that there is a necessary link between the transmission of human life and the responsibility to educate one’s offspring.

The Family Enrichment Course – 2011

THE FAMILY COURSE As the year has entered its final quarter, I find it apt to share some of my feedback on a Family Enrichment Course that I have been involved in co-ordinating since the start of 2011. The Family Course, run by the Caribbean Institute for Family Development (www.cifdtt.org) affiliated to the International Federation […]

Character Building

Character is simply the integration, into one personality, of several fundamental strengths of mind and will that characterise maturity. Character hinges on the acquisition of fundamental habits, traditionally called virtues.

James Stenson speaks to couples in Trinidad

JAMES STENSON During the course of his too few appearances in Trinidad recently, James Stenson, a noted authority on parenting, had many enriching insights to share.

Father, the Family Protector

In Father, The Family Protector, Educator James Stenson explores how fathers exercise their powerful and particularly masculine contribution to family life. His research comes from more than twenty years of working with families in Washington and Chicago.